Also, a survey showed China's average daily home sales during the Golden Week holiday leapt 23 percent by floor area from the same period last year, spurring hopes of a property market recovery.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index closed 3.0% higher at 21251.98, led by consumer stocks. Investors are looking for additional support measures to be announced at China's briefing on fiscal policy this ...

China's main economic problem lies in its extremely imbalanced drivers of growth, Capital Economics' chief Asia economist ...

Global stocks advanced on Wednesday along with U.S. Treasury yields, as minutes from the Federal Reserve's September meeting ...

In the oil market, a barrel of Brent crude, the international standard, recovered to rise 49 cents to $77.07 a barrel. It ...

Asia will remain the centre of the chip industry despite the build-up of chip production in the west, Christophe Fouquet, president and CEO of Dutch chip production equipment maker ASML, told Nikkei ...

Investors in Hong Kong have bet a record amount on exchange-traded funds that profit when stocks decline, showing how quickly ...

Wilson’s Advisory head of investment strategy says the sharemarket’s prospects are dependent on the measures announced at ...

China's central bank boosted support for markets on Thursday as it launched a "swap facility" offering firms access to ...

China’s central bank has set up a swap facility to provide liquidity to institutional investors to buy stocks, part of a ...

The Chinese central bank’s liquidity boosting tool sparks a 2.5 per cent surge in Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index.